Tank Balance Achieved?

[aleph_null]

I just want to point out that no tank swapping should be happening in V3s, critical hit won't kill you even without awareness I usually MT as a DRK and have no issues surviving the whole time.

You still won't mitigate as well as a war though. A war can do nearly the entire fight as MT in deliverance without putting much strain on the healers (probably do a tank swap near the end since you'd want to burn rampart + vengeance on the ninja adds without using defiance).

Critical hits come in intervals of somewhere around 1.5-2 mins, so awareness and shadow wall are up every two critical hits, rampart is up for every critical hit, and other than those your guaranteed mitigations are TBN and grit. War can do vengeance + awareness + thrill + raw intuition for the first one, use rampart for spellblade holy (which hits quite hard and is followed by the knife waltz), holmgang the second one, use rampart and raw intuition to mitigate auto attacks, vengeance + awareness for the third one, holmgang the fourth one, and so on. You have raw intuition, rampart for auto attack mitigation, while still saving thrill for your berserk'd upheavals. War's defensive toolkit is just too good for this fight.

That said, I think pld/drk might be the optimal composition for this fight, with tank swaps and maybe cover.

WAR/DRK in HW weren't meta because of their DPS, it's because of Delirium / Path / Reprisal... all mitigation skills...

Right and wrong. Dps is still the biggest reason why war/drk was meta. Sure path is nice for progression, but it's pretty much useless after like 2-3 weeks into farm. Eye alone in 3.x would've been enough to make war meta for farm/speedkill just from the sheer amount of raid dps gain it offers, either in a group with or without nin. Even in fights that were physical dmg heavy like a7s, a9s, a10s, war/drk was the optimal composition for farm.